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”AEGIS physics possibilities” Outline: - The Aegis experiment / ”Norwegian history” - Atomic & optical physics group & Rydberg atoms & processes - Possibilities.... Jan Petter Hansen, Town Meeting, Bergen 13.04.2009

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”AEGIS physics possibilities”. Outline: - The Aegis experiment / ”Norwegian history” - Atomic & optical physics group & Rydberg atoms & processes - Possibilities. Jan Petter Hansen, Town Meeting, Bergen 13.04.2009. AEGIS: Anti matter Experiment for Gravity, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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”AEGIS physics possibilities”

Outline:

- The Aegis experiment / ”Norwegian history”

- Atomic & optical physics group & Rydberg atoms & processes

- Possibilities....

Jan Petter Hansen, Town Meeting, Bergen 13.04.2009

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The primary scientific goal of AEGIS is the direct measurement of the Earth’s local

gravitational acceleration g on anti-hydrogen.

http://aegis.web.cern.ch/aegis/

AEGIS: Anti matter Experiment for Gravity, Interferemotry and Spectroscopy

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”The proposal is very original and could potentially revolutionise physics.”

Overall mark: 6 Result: Reject.

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Theory: Rydberg wavepacket simulations, Quantum control and Rydberg Antimatter dynamics

Experiment: Rydberg wavepackets, Coherent control, Molecular Rydberg transients & Rydberg movies

NFR FRINAT GRANT – 2010-2013 (~7Mkr)

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Atomic and optical physics @ UiB:

Øyvind Frette, Assoc. Professor

Jan Petter Hansen, Professor

Ladislav Kocbach, Professor

Jakob J. Stamnes, Professor

6 Dr. gradsstudenter7 Mastergradsstudenter

Morten FørreForsker

Børge HamreEngineer

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Outdoor UV lab(s)...

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Inhouse Femtosecond laserlab

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Inhouse Femtosecond laserlab

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(Rydberg) atoms, molecules and quantum dots in time dependent fields

Example: The dipole approximation breakes down for intense fields

Example: Two paths coherent optical control in quantumdots.

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Rydberg atoms:

• Controllable and perfect transitions from state to state

Can Rydberg antiatoms be controlled to the same level?

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Possibilities:

• The AEGIS experiment will very likely lead to exciting atomic physics studies– quantum control of anti matter in time dependent EM

fields– decoherence of mesoscopic (anti-) systems– Cold antimatter / Atimatter condensates

• Opens for collaboration between fields (atomic, quantum optics, particle physics communities) and between small scale and large scale science.

• Support for experimental activity is necessary!